L. C. Ulmer
| L. C. Ulmer | |
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Ulmer in 2011
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Lee Chester Ulmer |
| Born |
August 28, 1928 Stringer, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Died | February 14, 2016 (aged 87) Ellisville, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Genres | Delta blues |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter, one-man band |
| Instruments | Guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, vocals, keyboards, drums, kazoo, harmonica |
| Years active | Early 1940s–2016 |
Lee Chester "L. C." Ulmer (August 28, 1928 – February 14, 2016) was an American delta blues musician. He was a regular performer for over half a century, playing at festivals and clubs throughout the United States and elsewhere, but particularly in the Deep South. Ulmer was featured in the 2008 documentary film M for Mississippi: A Road Trip Through the Birthplace of the Blues. His earliest musical influence was Blind Roosevelt Graves. During his life, Ulmer met numerous notable musicians, including Elvis Presley, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Brook Benton, Nat King Cole, Fats Domino, Louis Armstrong, Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Howlin' Wolf, and Buddy Guy, and performed with some of them.
Ulmer was a multi-instrumentalist and often performed in his younger days as a one-man band.
Ulmer was born in Stringer, Jasper County, Mississippi. He was the youngest of fourteen children of Luther Ulmer and Mattie Brown. The family moved to a plantation near Moss Hill, where the whole family played music. The country singer Jimmie Rodgers was a notable visitor, who played alongside the family while drinking whiskey from the still of the plantation owner's son. Ulmer had learned to play the guitar by the age of nine and listened to records by Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Boy Fuller, Tampa Red, and Peetie Wheatstraw. His main influence for slide guitar technique was Blind Roosevelt Graves, whom Ulmer saw perform on the streets of Laurel, Mississippi. After starting to play on the streets himself, Ulmer found regular employment in his teenage years, building wooden trestles to support a railway line across Lake Pontchartrain. He was later employed near Heidelberg, Mississippi, working on the construction of railway lines to nearby oil wells.
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